Place gastrostomy tube perc at UPMC Hamot
201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590
$4,038.60
Cash price Discounted cash price What a hospital charges a self-pay patient who pays directly, without going through insurance — usually well below the gross charge. Example: A CT scan has a $3,200 gross charge but an $850 discounted cash price. Ask for it by name when scheduling — hospitals don't always advertise it up front.
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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$6,731.00
Gross charge Gross charge (chargemaster price) The hospital's full, undiscounted list price — pulled from its internal "chargemaster" price list. Almost no one actually pays this. Example: A chest X-ray has a gross charge of $1,450. The same hospital's discounted cash price for the same X-ray is $180 — the gross charge mostly anchors negotiations, not what patients pay.
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The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$194.19 with UPMC Health Plan vs $9,256.76 with Highmark BCBS of PA — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →Payer ?Payer The insurance company footing the bill — Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Medicare, and so on. Example: "Blue Cross Blue Shield" is the payer. Its negotiated rate for an MRI might be $904, while a different payer's negotiated rate for the same scan is $1,509. Full explanation → |
Plan ?Plan The specific product an insurer sells — e.g. "Blue Cross PPO 500" — which sets your deductible, coinsurance and negotiated rates. Example: Two people both insured by Aetna can owe very different amounts for the same MRI: $50 with an HMO plan's flat copay, or the full $1,200 toward a high-deductible PPO plan's unmet deductible. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $194.19 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $203.02 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $211.85 | ↓ -95% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $245.37 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $261.81 | ↓ -94% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $266.22 | ↓ -93% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $275.60 | ↓ -93% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $300.86 | ↓ -93% |
| Univera | Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 | $1,009.65 | ↓ -75% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,132.02 | ↓ -72% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $1,535.00 | ↓ -62% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Commercial | $1,572.66 | ↓ -61% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,670.96 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1,682.75 | ↓ -58% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $1,914.64 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $2,019.30 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $2,019.30 | ↓ -50% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $2,087.30 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $2,129.05 | ↓ -47% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $2,130.72 | ↓ -47% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $2,149.92 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $2,191.66 | ↓ -46% |
| Univera | Commercial | $2,221.23 | ↓ -45% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $2,233.41 | ↓ -45% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $2,254.08 | ↓ -44% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $2,254.28 | ↓ -44% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $2,254.28 | ↓ -44% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $2,254.28 | ↓ -44% |
| Independent Health | Medicare Advantage | $2,630.42 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2,692.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | EBR | $2,692.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Independent Health | Commercial | $2,980.02 | ↓ -26% |
| InterGroup | Health Coalition Partners/PPO | $4,375.15 | ↑ +8% |
| Aetna | AXA/MMO | $4,711.70 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $4,711.70 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) | $5,384.80 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | Beech Street | $5,384.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission | $5,785.53 | ↑ +43% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $9,256.76 | ↑ +129% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $4,149.00 | $176.54 – $5,532.00 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $7,713.60 | $224.21 – $10,927.60 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $7,713.60 | $238.33 – $10,927.60 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $8,014.80 | $194.19 – $10,686.40 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $3,735.00 | $194.19 – $1,898.98 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $7,713.60 | $224.21 – $2,899.50 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $7,630.20 | $194.19 – $2,441.54 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $7,713.60 | $224.21 – $2,915.17 |